- Title
- Radical brothers-in-arms: Gaius and Hank at the racetrack
- Creator
- Johnson, Marguerite
- Relation
- Hip Sublime: Beat Writers and the Classical Tradition p. 97-115
- Relation
- https://muse-jhu-edu.ezproxy.newcastle.edu.au/book/66753
- Publisher
- Ohio State University Press
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2018
- Description
- In their continual attempt to transcend what they perceived as the superficiality, commercialism, and precariousness of life in post-World War II America, the Beat writers turned to the classical authors who provided, on the one hand, a discourse of sublimity to help them articulate their desire for a purity of experience, and, on the other, a venerable literary heritage. This volume examines for the first time the intersections between the Beat writers and the Greco-Roman literary tradition. Many of the “Beats” were university-trained and highly conscious of their literary forebears, frequently incorporating their knowledge of Classical literature into their own avant-garde, experimental practice. The interactions between writers who fashioned themselves as new and iconoclastic, and a venerable literary tradition often seen as conservative and culturally hegemonic, produced fascinating tensions and paradoxes, which are explored here by a diverse group of contributors.
- Subject
- Beat poets; American literature; criticism; Beat generation
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1409937
- Identifier
- uon:36089
- Identifier
- ISBN:9780814213551
- Rights
- © 2018. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
- Language
- eng
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